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a chris the candidate's. policy all. the. polish court will decide on the extradition of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects who was detained and later released in warsaw. russia and norway agreed to a landmark deal that puts an end will forty year disagreement over disputed waters in the energy rich parents sea. and a new plan announced to pull the elling us economy out of trouble but despite all new measures new figures reveal how millions of unemployed americans are living below poverty. it's ten am in moscow. giving you today's top stories and a look back at the week that was here on r t the polls have opened in sweden's

parliamentary elections with the ruling coalition expected to win the most votes but a controversial anti immigrant party is so far winning the most headlines latest polls suggest the center right bloc headed by the swedish prime minister will win the center left opposition isn't that far behind with some estimates putting them just five percent margin away from majority but for many observers this has been overshadowed by the success of the far right sweden democrats party which has seen its head of its attacked and says it's been denied the right to free speech parties laura emmet reports from sweden. it's one of europe's oldest democracies but the lead up to the election in sweden has been anything but democratic candidates from the right wing sweetened democrats have been harassed. by young people. well from far left groups. there have been several cases which passed with a notice but now it's starting to become known we're

a big party nicer is getting more attention it's horrible that it should happen during an election campaign it's a threat to swedish democracy. this weekend democrats are controversial they believe the government's immigration policy in recent years has been a failure allowing large numbers of migrants to live in enclaves where they don't learn swedish creating tension between diverse ethnic groups and draining the welfare system the s.t.d. would severely limit immigration and encourage migrants to similate to go home that's led to them being branded nazis by left wing groups this is one meeting that was allowed to go ahead but in the days leading up to the election the sweden democrats were forbidden from campaigning like this with the police saying they couldn't guarantee their safety s. d. candidate nina cain says that's tantamount to the state guaranteeing free speech with one hand but taking it away with the other and she knows all about threats to

her personal safety last week she came home to find just swastika daubed on her front door so of course. i'm not scare it. makes me angry because it's one of the things that. we in this party. democracy. used to be you can say what you want. a fellow s.t. candidate in a scene reminiscent of a film was tortured by use in his house held down while the swastika was carved on his forehead he told the police he told them speaking arabic in a town like malmo where thirty percent of the population was born abroad the sweden democrats have attracted significant support among the swedish born population the

latest polls put their popularity nationwide at seven point six percent enough to win twenty six parliamentary seats out of three hundred forty nine henning's a political candidate in the nearby town. doesn't agree with the message this week democrats are pushing out but thinks it's important they should be allowed to speak . here. pretty well but it's very marginal people. here in the. other political parties have said they won't work with the sweeping democrats even if they do get elected to parliament so it's not just threats to their safety that the s.t. candidates have to worry about they're already discussing what to do. how to keep us out anyway and what about the mark with its people. there.

at. this weekend's election is likely to result in the sweet democrats winning first. it's likely to be a divisive. politics. the other party will have to decide. and how they're prepared to deal with this group they've tried so hard to ignore and ordinary people will have to decide whether they value free speech enough to let in and see immigration policy play a role in governing some have already shown they don't know or abbott's artsy sweet stay with us here on our team got lots more ahead of your way including this . counting is underway in the afghan capital image reports of violence and food we'll bring you an update in just a few moments. plus cut off from the outside world a unique experiment in

a pair mankind for future deep space expeditions reaches a fresh milestone details just ahead. first though a polish court will determine the fate of one of russia's most wanted terror suspects was detained in warsaw on friday under an international arrest warrant but later released artie's alexy are assesses his chances of being extradited to russia . two days before i arrived in warsaw the polish media was speculating over whether one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects who was also on interpol's list would be detained just hours after he landed in warsaw was apprehended by the police show for it to us was coming to attend a very high profile event the world. which is taking place in poland and it was impossible to ignore he would be making

a public splash so therefore the poles had to act because they do have obligations to their european partners to the systems legal systems they belong to and i think that's what they're answering to in detaining the man himself seemingly confident of his immunity provided by his political refugee status made his own way to the prosecutor's office where he was detained he said poland was not his enemy and that he wanted to find out for himself why he is wanted something few in moscow believed . we heard was heading to poland to turn himself in to the prosecutor's office why he could go to the prosecutor's office in britain or any other country if he wanted to but he did it in poland so my theory is that it might be aimed at soaring the improving relations between moscow and warsaw. poland has to consider whether to be extradited to russia and no matter how hard war so try to d. politicize this issue. the prosecutor general tells me they have no choice but to

start extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy all. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. but they also have their own limitations but mastic agenda. and they can go to and definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for our relations committee has been one of russia's most wanted since two thousand and two it is now that he walks in the lagoon suit but just a decade ago he was the leader of a chechen militant group and he is believed to have been involved in a string of atrocities in north caucasus from brutal killings to kidnappings moskos says it has proved it was one of the masterminds of the more school theater siege

in two thousand and two which led to more than one hundred deaths however in two thousand and three he received political asylum in britain and all attempts by russia to extradite him for trial have been futile the polish courts as we all know considering the sex tradition request as they legally must will review. also review the basis of the decisions taken in the u.k. which granted him asylum and that asylum proved. after the polish prosecutor general's office filed a request to keep him behind bars for at least forty days or so as district court ruled that political refugee status meant more than the fact he's internationally wanted and he was immediately released on friday night walked out the doors of warsaw as district court feeling like a free man the question is is whether he will be able to go home or will be extradited to any other country a polish court says it may take several more days to deliver

a decision on the fate of one of russia's most wanted criminals let's see reporting from warsaw in poland this week norway signed an arctic border agreement resolving a decades long territorial dispute the treaty created a maritime boundary in the energy rich parents sea and divided disputed area roughly half the size of germany the deals expected to boost offshore exploration in a region are rich with oil and natural gas. russian in the weeds and leaders aglow in from satisfaction with president dmitri medvedev and prime minister yen stoltenberg have achieved is a huge relief for the nations. the go all it took us forty years to arrive at this agreement it's a long time but this event must certainly turn a new page in our bilateral relations the area which stretches over one hundred seventy five thousand kilometers in the bering sea has been a bone of contention between the neighboring countries since the nine hundred

seventy s. but this wasn't simply territorial he'd containing vost oil and gas reserves prophet has also been at the center of this pete but with an unclear border no one could even start the serious exploration circle in this issue moscow knows les have done with been impossible for decades and that some say because they need to boost their coffers and reserves but production both in russian and always going to. need new fields and new big elephants to develop. its disputed area later. place just very promising demonstrating goodwill incorporating with a nato member russia still openly opposed to the alliances military presence in the region for. the arctic natural resources have nothing to do with nato it's a zone for economic cooperation and military presence will create additional issues

here the signing comes in it's rising tension between the five arctic states which also include canada denmark and the united states over who owns water in this lucrative region moscow knows they have showed how to return to feuds can be resolved very important from the point of view of. the russian strategy which i would call to ease tensions there on the russian borders the treaties yet to be ratified by russian and the region parliaments something the two leaders predict will be done by new year some experts estimate the waters of the bering tide as wide as a quarter of the planet's feeble at all and get resources but for years due to political opt in say base treasure has remained there then buried now with russia in no way finally thinking their law writing feared the true maritime powers are why they're ready to make some headway what's been called in trouble for decades well thrown in profits. right notional tea in the bering sea.

meanwhile russia and canada this week were also looking to break the ice over their argument about another disputed part of the arctic on thursday the two countries foreign ministers held talks in moscow after otto a said it's prepared to challenge russia in a race for the arctic's rich resources but canadian analyst michel chossudovsky says the u.s. is simply using canada and other arctic countries to extend its military grip on the area the main players in this game today on account of the well let's start with the most important the united states which is pulling the strings can the dependable and norway on one side and russia own the and these four countries which old members of the two zero in the process of building. seeking to claim sovereignty over the take extending it beyond the territories thereby competing with russian claims and as i

mentioned the united states is using canada but also to some extent also the other two countries denmark and norway as it means to extend its military into the office of beyond the seventy fifth the power level. to afghanistan now where at least fourteen people were killed in separate bombings on the day of the country's parliamentary elections the vote counting is underway and fraud allegations and reports of irregularities artie's correspondent in kabul paula sli or has more. overnight the afghan capital was quiet and there have been no incidents of violence reported although as you say at the close of election day saturday at least fourteen people were confirmed did the taliban carried out more than thirty bombing attacks in a statement an e-mailed it said it had targeted and hit some one hundred and fifty polling stations around the country we're hearing from afghan officials that little more than a third of the voting population turned out to bridges to the vote and we're also

hearing from the free and fair election foundation of afghanistan that they recorded some two hundred and twenty four incidents of serious intimidation they seem to have been problems particularly in the eastern provinces of afghanistan where there were virtually no female electoral staff and as a result women particularly in conservative communities were unable to come forward and cross their ballot in addition to the more than one thousand votes he was stations where i'm able to open because of intimidation and threats from the taliban the foundation has also recorded a further one thousand five hundred and eighty four voting stations that opened their doors late because of problems in the whole mechanisms of organizing the selection we're also hearing and we've reported extensively on this on the anti forward problems that we face primarily by the so-called indelible ink that could be washed off in many cases in just a matter of minutes and also cases of fake voter id cards in one example there was

a car that was found with one thousand six hundred fake voter cards so these have been some of the problems that are coming forward and will continue to come forward in the coming days preliminary results are expected on the eighth of october although it will take several weeks for the final results to be tabled now the afghan government particularly president hamid karzai and his international backers have been at pains to point out the success of the selection but it depends according to what yardstick you measure success. based on the yardstick they've been using is this many people here say extremely low they say that you regularity is inevitable they say that the violence of the su was less than of was last year during the presidential elections and this they say that this election of the two hundred and forty nine parliamentary members will not be as corrupt or as difficult as it was last year having said that though there are many observers many analysts and a lot of afghans themselves who say that these elections cannot be called democratic

in the waste and sense of democracy the fact that so few people tuned out to vote does not give legitimacy to the parliament which is due to take its seats next year . turning to the u.s. now the white house is pressing ahead with plans to double u.s. exports in the next five years the proposals could generate up to two million jobs and it's hoped to help the country in its recovering from recession this comes as new figures reveal that the number of americans facing poverty is at a fifty year high. welcome to silk city. this once was what the industrial revolution looked like in the united states. now this is what poverty looks like in this town more than twenty percent are poor more than seventeen percent unemployed it means for many here ninety m. is a time to go to work now and just looking down it's time to head to the food pantry

for charity. they are low income folks are some of them have been unemployed for almost two years is what we're seeing but on average it's the underemployed. there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny are going to morrow and it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the need and the numbers are only growing and we saw in two thousand and nine a fifteen percent increase over two thousand and eight numbers and we're anticipating that that number will go up by another ten percent at the end of two thousand and three not only here but in the entire u.s. new statistics for two thousand and nine show forty three million people one in seven are living in poverty this is the most people who are in more than fifty years that's when they first began tracking these numbers here you can see one reason they are turning these are few and far between especially in the old urban industrial cities are patterson as in so many cities in the united states

manufacturing used to power this one these were still factories that now are decrepit boarded up sitting in disrepair there are signs everywhere here of the u.s. manufacturing jobs have disappeared or gone overseas factory work all of the low level jobs that these folks with most of the old what about you know you. know and leaving them lining up in droves for a little heat we now say prepare about twelve hundred meals a day now it will be serving about four hundred. people. are free to join some of the work around here some are at the homeless not surprisingly always on call. there are twenty percent more mouths to feed here eva's kitchen you can hear it why do then or now and some can't work out like for one who has an incurable disease lose no for work or for so many of us used to be a troll driver yet he still can't afford lunch and experts say the needy are needy

or than ever are they more poor yes that i can say it here on the ground for from washington and wall street there is no sign of an economic recovery for these people in sight i don't see recovery. they have no thanks for their politicians i don't know what's going on with the caller i don't know was the press the door. for me is not the where it's in the room whether. he's live in the urban decay of silk city gratitude is reserved for the help with recovery they do know. they feel they. know you share your very characteristic lauren lyster artie patterson new jersey. also this week israeli and palestinian leaders met for two days in sharm el sheikh and jerusalem for another round of middle east peace talks the meeting was overshadowed though by israeli warplanes attacking gaza twice in

response to palestinian rocket and mortar fire the main issue for discussion was israeli settlements in the west bank palestinian president mahmoud abbas had threatened to pull out of negotiations if israel extended the settlement building but abbas said the talks have to continue as there is simply no alternative former negotiator for israel alan baker says you shouldn't sit down if they go shooting table if you're not prepared to compromise. the palestinians have blown up this whole issue of settlements out of all proportion it's one of the negotiating issues so you it's not a zero sum game you can say well we'll only negotiate if you already given on one of the major points of negotiation peace according to the former agreements between the israelis and the palestinians peace is composed of a number of subjects one is refugees one is jerusalem one is water one is security one these borders and another one is the settlements now all these subjects have to

be negotiated the palestinians can come along and say hey we're not going to negotiate if you don't agree in advance to freeze all the settlements this is completely against all principles of negotiation. turning now to some other stories grabbing attention across the globe people in bermuda are preparing and approach are preparing for the approaching hurricane igor which is threatening to bring with it severe coastal flooding the storm has already reached speeds of one hundred sixty kilometers an hour meanwhile in mexico the cleanup has begun after the devastation left behind by hurricane karl seven people were killed and many others had seen their homes damaged or destroyed. he says he needs to carry out one more pressure test before the blown out well in the gulf of mexico can be declared permanently sealed the test is on the cement that was pumped in on friday a temporary kept stopping the oil spilling into the gulf in mid july the lows

closure will bring an end to almost five months of chaos after the rig explosion that killed eleven workers and led to the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. a forty year old woman from massachusetts got herself an impressive souvenir on her summer holiday in south carolina she managed to catch a four metre five hundred kilo alligator using only a fishing rod battling for almost two hours to get in you her boat the woman also use a knife to kill the animal as her twenty two caliber gun wasn't powerful enough to put it down. six russian men taking part in an experimental project to prepare for a trip to mars have set a new record for a simulation of this kind they spent more than one hundred days confined in a spacecraft like capsule and more than four hundred lie ahead the experiment though far from over is expected to contribute hugely to the future of space exploration. these are these all in. ordinary life but in an extraordinary setting this is the crew of the mars five hundred

experiment going about their daily business they've been locked in their mock up space module for over one hundred days now psychologists are watching for signs of stress or tension. in experiments in psychology are quite exciting the way they communicate with the control center and in particular the text they write for radio communications and emails are important sources for psychologists who see their mental state and the way they're interacting. the six men entered their voluntary isolation back in june simulating the estimated five hundred twenty day voyage to mars mock mars landing and the trip back. the modules here in the institute of biomedical research in moscow are designed to mimic the conditions of such a journey minus the zero gravity and the physical distance as well as that the idea that they're traveling to mars and back is strongly cultivated with the real world

and not deep space just outside the door. how realistic appropriation is this for a future mars mission. because the experiment of most of course this is not perpetration for a mission to mars that is out of the question there is no group and program a search however some aspects such as can for inspiration limited communication are practiced here the results of such study mean later proven porton darley for space missions but for areas like polar exploration where people have to spend a lot of time in little groups in isolated spaces as well as going without outside contact the crew is also being denied female company others to likes of mariners or polar explorers have to spend long periods with only males psychologists here taking the opportunity to see what effects it may have. moved through the has its share in this of course perhaps the absence of women contributes to more irritability or even aggression it is totally up to us like qualities to smooth

over any problems. much research work is being done on board which keeps the crew focused and motivated progress maps are updated daily and there's an artificial time delay of up to twenty minutes for all outside communications to account for the distance from earth for another four hundred eighteen days the staff here will monitor the crew through these cameras twenty four hours a day every day if problems do occur best for us to be most likely after about nine months but in this unique in an experiment it's so far so good. in our team was. one person who knows all who knows all about these sorts of long term confinement says lisa jane's a former contestant a contestant on the british version of big brother she says being psychologically stable is a tough task. i miss not being able to just walk.